The ought-is problem is a major problem -- you can't find right and wrong in the spin of planets or atoms. It isn't there.
The modernists thought you could, so every ideology they came up with ended up being horribly destructive, and they claimed their piles of corpses were acceptable because they claimed to have found morality there and all they found was justifications for whatever they wanted to do anyway.
The postmodernists had ideas that might have released them from modernism, but they ultimately collapsed into postmodernism flavored modernism. Paradoxically, their grand narrative becomes a specific flavor of "there is no grand narrative" and their objective truth becomes "there is no objective truth". If you are certain with religious fervor that the things most people believe to be true or not true, what happens when that becomes what most people believe?
The modernists thought you could, so every ideology they came up with ended up being horribly destructive, and they claimed their piles of corpses were acceptable because they claimed to have found morality there and all they found was justifications for whatever they wanted to do anyway.
The postmodernists had ideas that might have released them from modernism, but they ultimately collapsed into postmodernism flavored modernism. Paradoxically, their grand narrative becomes a specific flavor of "there is no grand narrative" and their objective truth becomes "there is no objective truth". If you are certain with religious fervor that the things most people believe to be true or not true, what happens when that becomes what most people believe?
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